Microsoft Officially Revealing Halo 4 This Month
Halo 4 will finally make an appearance this month at Microsoft's Xbox Spring Showcase in San Francisco.
Typically we don't cover console games, but the Halo franchise is an exception. Most of us have played -- and still own -- at least one of the seven titles released over the course of eleven years, maybe even the original Halo on PC (just admit to having an Xbox, it's ok, we understand). That said, many readers may be waiting anxiously for Halo 4, Microsoft's first full-fledged venture into the Halo universe without holding Bungie's hand.
The new installment will be the first chapter in the new "Reclaimer" trilogy, developed by 343 Industries, a studio created by Microsoft to handle the Halo IP once Bungie signed off. Previously 343 Industries gave the original Halo an HD spit-shine and re-released it as Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary in November 2011. Now its first full-blown Halo game is slated for a Holiday 2012 release.
NeoGAF is now reporting that an article in Finnish magazine Pelaaja claims that Halo 4 will be revealed at Microsoft's Xbox Spring Showcase on February 29 (aka Leap Day) in San Francisco. If true, this will be the first time we've seen Halo 4 since Microsoft offered a little taste of concept art last year at E3 2011. Backing up the report, an image has appeared on Twitter that looks to be a scanned event advertisement (pamphlet).
That said, sounds like we have an event to attend towards the end of the month. Has Microsoft milked the Halo franchise to the point of exhaustion, or could there never be enough Halo? 343 Industries is hoping to take the franchise "back to what made Halo 3 so amazing," but we're wondering if it's time to retire Master Chief's helmet. Or at least, bring the franchise back to the PC if Microsoft insists on milking the Halo cow a little longer. Talk about sore nipples, though.
Hear that Microsoft? Bring Halo 4 to Windows PC and make it cross-platform, pitting the console fanboys against the hardware junkies.
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Microsoft themselves have said they will never cross platform.
they tried and in all test the pc players destroyed the console users.
Don't believe me? look it up, it's there.
Damn shame this won't come out for the PC. Can you imagine given the graphics hardware out right now for the pc how much better looking Halo 4 for the PC would be compared to the Xbox 360? What a shame, what a shame...
Oh please, Microsoft. You've failed your Halo fans. Port Halo 3, ODST, Reach and Halo 4 to the PC, put the graphics up to Direct X 11 levels and give Halo the attention and graphical presentation it deserves, not on some 7 year old console that can't hold a candle to this years graphics cards.
Not doing this is about as stupid (or worse) as releasing Windows Vista, as bad as it was.
After playing a fair number of games over the last few years that have switched developers on the same IP, I don't really have much faith in it. Seems like more and more developers are riding on the name alone to make money; and it's working.
Mass Effect >>> Halo. That is all.
They got some professional xbox player and some average PC gamer's, The PC gamers destroyed the xbox gamer's because a mouse is more easy to control a cross-hair with rather than a joystick.
+ Pc gamers had twitch reflex's on there side.
Meh. I loved the first one and thought the second was really good, but since I've actually seen it for what it is now (essentially a cash cow) I really don't care anymore.
If they actually put titles on the PC (excluding 1 & 2 of course) it would atleast look like they're trying to make an effort. I'd also love to cross platform with the 360. I'd feed off of the tears.
'maybe even the original Halo on PC (just admit to having an Xbox, it's ok, we understand)'
What if you have both?
They got some professional xbox player and some average PC gamer's, The PC gamers destroyed the xbox gamer's because a mouse is more easy to control a cross-hair with rather than a joystick.+ Pc gamers had twitch reflex's on there side.
Not only that, but from what I've read more than once in the past, it appears lag (both input, output and general connection) is worse in consoles than it is in PC gaming.
Which ultimately means if you're pitting only console or only PC players, you'll have an even battlefield (when it comes to lag, at least), but when you mix them up, you'd actually need precognitive console players or artificial limits on PC players to even the odds. However, precogs are not that common, and artificially limiting a player will end up annoying him/pissing him off.
That being said, I'd like to see both versions out, PC and XBOX. You just need to make sure players can't mix on the battlefield.
They said nothing about an official announcement... just that its a rumor...
Oh please, Microsoft. You've failed your Halo fans. Port Halo 3, ODST, Reach and Halo 4 to the PC, put the graphics up to Direct X 11 levels and give Halo the attention and graphical presentation it deserves, not on some 7 year old console that can't hold a candle to this years graphics cards.Not doing this is about as stupid (or worse) as releasing Windows Vista, as bad as it was.
The Xbox360 couldn't hold a candle to GPUs that were out a year before the console >.<
HALO is becoming a cashcow like COD
HALO is becoming a cashcow like COD
At least Bungie gets to start elsewhere and hopefully make another great title.
Once Bungie left, the Halo franchise died to me. Will not pick up this game. Bungie was Halo. Any "Halo" game not designed by Bungie is just a knockoff imo.
LOL, yeah, PC vs console multiplayer would be so unbelievably lopsided that most console players would rage quit in 5 minutes or less.
Once Bungie left, the Halo franchise died to me. Will not pick up this game. Bungie was Halo. Any "Halo" game not designed by Bungie is just a knockoff imo.
You do know that most of the creative team at bungie that created halo 3 are working for 343 right? bungie are the ones that made it a cash cow by making ODST and reach, i want to play halo 4 because i want to know what happened to Spartan 117 something i've had to wait a stupidly long time to find out
You do know that most of the creative team at bungie that created halo 3 are working for 343 right? bungie are the ones that made it a cash cow by making ODST and reach, i want to play halo 4 because i want to know what happened to Spartan 117 something i've had to wait a stupidly long time to find out
I honestly did not know that. Halo 3 was by far my least favorite, so this gives me even more reason not to get 4. lol.
i was going to edit that as they also made halo 1 and 2 as well after i realised how that sounded
day 1 purchase for me
Pirating more than anything else caused many developers to not go cross platform. You know who you are!!!
Call it a cash cow all you want but Reach was just a good as CE imo. Looking forward to 4.
"Hear that Microsoft? Bring Halo 4 to Windows PC and make it cross-platform, pitting the console fanboys against the hardware junkies."
This is just dumb unless they implement a way to verify an even playing field. ie guaranteeing gamepad vs gamepad or kb/mouse vs kb/mouse. surely it can't be that [i]difficult. [/i]
Shattered Horizon >>>>>>>>>>>> Halo
Oh please, Microsoft. You've failed your Halo fans. Port Halo 3, ODST, Reach and Halo 4 to the PC, put the graphics up to Direct X 11 levels and give Halo the attention and graphical presentation it deserves, not on some 7 year old console that can't hold a candle to this years graphics cards.Not doing this is about as stupid (or worse) as releasing Windows Vista, as bad as it was.
They failed the halo fans when they tried to use Halo 2 (and Shadowrun) to force people onto Vista... and someone hacked out the OS restriction code to show it worked just *fine* on XP.
Not interested in buying a console, period. Don't care what game's out on it. (And frankly, I want to see more Myth. And some more Mechwarrior on PC.)
"Hear that Microsoft? Bring Halo 4 to Windows PC and make it cross-platform, pitting the console fanboys against the hardware junkies."This is just dumb unless they implement a way to verify an even playing field. ie guaranteeing gamepad vs gamepad or kb/mouse vs kb/mouse. surely it can't be that difficult.
I am sure you are being sarcastic. This presumption would be pointless...since the Xbox doesn't support M/KB. The idea you provide would be essentially pc vs pc or xbox vs xbox.
I'm excited about 343. Bungie controlled Reach for a year and never released a patch, despite the outcry about players not having any control over some controversial changes. 343's first move? Gather feedback and put out a patch to give people this control. How well will they preserve the Halo spirit with a new game? We'll see. MANY players feel Bungie lost touch with Reach anyway...
As far as the console vs PC debate goes, PC fanboys are blowing things way out of proportion. First of all, professional console gamers were not involved, at least not the way people make it out to be. They might have been professionals in the sense that they were consultants or testers, but I've found absolutely no information to suggest and "MLG Pros" were involved. Saying those players would lose to average PC players is obvious bull to anyone who's played a shooter. Having good aim helps, but there's a hell of a lot more you need to be good at to win.
If two players of the exact same skill (and equally good with their respective aiming format) were matched, then yes, the PC player would win. But that's pretty much never the case.
Think of the mentality and overall skill of an average console player compared to that of an average PC player. PC players tend to be more "hardcore." The average PC player is better than you average console player. Not because you use a different method of aiming, but simply because of the differing types of players the two platforms attract.
PC players would win more, but it's not because of a mouse. It's because the average PC player is better than the average console player.
Also, I just have to add that if your idea of auto-aim on a console comes from CoD, that's why you think it's so ridiculous. Compared to Halo and other console shooters, the CoD series has AA on steroids. It's to the point that it often interferes with aim instead of helping it.
If everyone would just stop buying those damn consoles, then maybe all games would be released in high quality on the pc... I know, just a pipe dream..
They failed the halo fans when they tried to use Halo 2 (and Shadowrun) to force people onto Vista... and someone hacked out the OS restriction code to show it worked just *fine* on XP. Not interested in buying a console, period. Don't care what game's out on it. (And frankly, I want to see more Myth. And some more Mechwarrior on PC.)
I remember that. You *had* to upgrade to Vista in order to supposedly play Halo 2 since it "required" DX10 drivers. It didn't show much (any really) improvement over it's DX9 counterpart. Very few games showed up on both SucksBox and the PC (Gayers of Whores being another) or the "Windows Games" titles. I was disappointed when I heard that Alan Wake was only going to be for the Xbox (since nVidia was working on the 6800GT GPUs at the time), because I would have liked to see the lighting for that game on a PC.
Then brings us to the other side of the problem. A lot of PC exclusive games got butchered because of console variants. Unreal Championship 2 for Xbox (did we really need a "quicktime" button mash to do instant kills?) and the Farcry franchise got dumbed down thanks to the consoles (we won't even mention ol' Duke). And why are the console FPS's getting more acclaim than FPS's that have been around for PC (Yes, I'm glaring at you Halo...why do you think you're better than Half-Life 1&2?)
People have got to stop making the argument that pirating is killing PC gaming. Pirating is affecting consoles as well.
The 360 has run its course and I'm done buying games for it and sick of ports from it. As long as they release it on the PC with decent graphics I'll probably get it. If I have to skip this release and wait for Halo 5 to be either developed for PC or ported from the next xbox, then so be it.
F**k PC. Halo is an Xbox franchise, Microsoft's main franchise.
Halo was originally developed as a PC only game (including Mac at the time) that became ported to Xbox during development. Go look at the history. I remember being so disappointed when I read the first hint that it might be dual platform as I knew that it would die on PC. Lo, and behold - it did!
There are more windows based PCs in the world than XBoxes so it seems clear that PCs would be Microsoft's main franchise.
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"bring the franchise back to the PC if Microsoft insists on milking the Halo cow a little longer. Talk about sore nipples, though."
Yeah Because Halo is Totally Milking it when COD has 2x as many games out.
holy crap just buy an xbox